Next Reunion in 2006.Got news? Tap out a note to magazine@bates.edu! The Madison (Conn.) Weekly highlighted Kevin Garrity as “Person of the Week” recently as the president of 35-year-old Garrity Industries, the second-largest manufacturer of flashlights and lanterns in North America. Garrity Industries was the first to make disposable lighters, disposable flashlights, and rubber-encased flashlights. Its line of rubber flashlights is the best selling in the world.